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I have avoided the following day (September 22^nd) for two reasons. Firstly, because it is such an obvious date to begin with, but principally because this date is where the adventure really begins. Tuesday 21^st September 1937 marks the date on which The Hobbit was published and Tolkien’s adventure with us begins. The book receives some good reviews and doubtless it arrives inside quite a few Christmas stockings that year.…